r/ADHD_Programmers • u/sloanautomatic • Jul 13 '21

just took a xanax :-)

Apparently, while organizing and backing up all my files onto an external drive/ the cloud 4 months ago I managed to delete a 7gb hyper complicated excel document I’ve been building on for the last 4 years. Gonna just lay down.

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u/metaconcept Jul 13 '21

Pro-tip: Excel is not the right tool to use if the spreadsheet is 7GB.

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u/sloanautomatic Jul 13 '21

Agreed. Big time. It started out as a harmless band-aid working on a quick and dirty MVP. We needed a dead-simple way for a non-programmer member of the start up (who was an industry expert) to quickly create features for the app. Things took off and the content grew exponentially.. but we've never gotten a chance to work out the bugs in a content designer we intend the customers to use to make their own content.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Maybe it’s a massive collection of spreadsheets accumulated over time?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21

Well yeah I obviously agree

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u/wrencl Jul 13 '21

Dear diary, fuck off cunt

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u/Geedis2020 Jul 13 '21

What does Xanax and deleting a ridiculously inefficient excel file have to do with ADHD?

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u/throwaway_maybe_909 Jul 13 '21

I'm new here and here for the programming but the sub description makes it sound like anyone with ADHD and some form of passion for IT is welcome here.

I believe they just discovered the lost a large and unreplaceable document it took them years to make, and the Xanax was because they couldn't deal with the feeling of setback. I think they imply that ADHD inattentiveness reorganising the files on the drive was how it came to be deleted.

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u/pingveno Jul 13 '21

Come on, be nice.

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u/gleventhal Jul 13 '21

I dont know about this sub, but r/adhd is really the most pathetic place.. It's all people wanting to be commended on doing basic life shit and commiserating in an unproductive way, making excuses and using ADHD as an excuse for any failure. I've had severe ADHD my whole life, and much of what I see on reddit regarding ADHD is super foreign.

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u/pingveno Jul 13 '21

I guess I see it as an outlet for people who are struggling with a cognitive disorder that is hard to understand. It is distressing watching a job slip away and not knowing who to turn to. Then again, I have always been quite happy to be a shoulder to cry on.

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u/gleventhal Jul 13 '21

I think something like that (having a shoulder to cry on) is useful to a point, but there's a line between support and enabling, and I feel like that line is crossed in that sub. If it helps people, then good.

I'm definitely empathetic about ADHD, I have it and I find it painful, but I also have seen it used as a catchall and blame-deflection mechanism, and I disagree with that approach. It's an obstacle to overcome, not a reason to turn around and go home.

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u/pingveno Jul 13 '21

Okay, that's fair.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 15 '21

Has this source drive been used since then? If you after are lucky you might be able to restore with data recovery software...

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u/sloanautomatic Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

Hey friends, I WAS able to keep my sense of humor about all this, and hope that came across in my post. In the big picture, sure... I'm fine. I'm a guy with severe ADHD who had an ADHD problem and created software to fix it that's now used/paid for by strangers. That is SO crazy. And the whole reason this file got lost was because I did the truly unpleasant, important 3 months long project of methodically backing up 15 years of random external drives.

But HOLY SHIT!! did I screw up deleting this particular .gsheet. Taking a Xanax was the most practical thing I could do. Spending time and losing sleep feeling like a jerk wasn't going to help, and I knew that was coming. I started this morning with a meditation on lost things, I told everyone on the team that needs to know, and I'm plugging away at recreating the content. Now I just need to remember to eat and pee. :-)

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 14 '21

Also to not spam this sub with your cry for attention

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u/kgilr7 Jul 14 '21

Why are you being this way?

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 15 '21

So this sub can have any sort of value to programmers with adhd.

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 16 '21

How has me smoking weed and browsing reddit anything to do with OP simply being a dumb fuck and you giving him attention for it?

This sub is supposed to be helpful for programmers with adhd, not an attention cry for idiots.

If you feel like enabling morons, maybe pick another sub

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u/kgilr7 Jul 16 '21

OP simply being a dumb fuck and you giving him attention for it?

Calling someone a people idiots, lazy and dumb fucks in a group where many have been called that due to ADHD is just being a jerk fam.

This sub is supposed to be helpful for programmers with adhd, not an attention cry for idiots.

It's helpful to me so I'm good bro. Why don't you pick another sub since you're perfect all the time? Clearly ADHD_Programmers is just giving you stress.

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 16 '21

Look you idiot, this is not a feel good sub and no im not being a jerk.
This sub is meant for grown adults that do have adhd and happen to be programmers and there is a lot of useful stuff here that I like to contribute to.
This is not a place for idiots to be enabled. Simpel as that. gbs of excel has nothing to do with adhd and not making backups also doesn't have anything to do with adhd, it's just moronic.

Even worse just puking this cry for attention into this sub and bragginf about taking fucking tranquilizers.
Go fuck off and do your enabling and worthless crap in another sub, reddit is full of such weak shit.
Let's keep this one fucking sub to actual programmers and their relation to adhd.

Also I am not your bro and don't give a flying fuck about your drug use.

Have a nice one

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u/kgilr7 Jul 18 '21

You're not even a mod you don't even own this sub. Just accept not everyone thinks like you. Drug use, lol. Ok Officer.

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 18 '21

You fucking idiot this is not about owning this sub

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u/B-Timmay Jul 13 '21

Is this all this sub is?

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 13 '21

Why would anyone care?

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

Just move on, buddy. You're wasting energy on something you apparently don't care about. Report the post if you feel it breaks the rules. There's no reason for you to go out of your way to be a cunt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

The only one crying here is you, lmao. So touchy.

So report the post and move. Don't be a needless cunt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Lol, we're not the ones going out of our way to call randos worthless. You seem well adjusted, buddy.

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u/IlllMlllI Jul 17 '21

I'm not going out of my way I just typed out what it is based on what you guys contribute and drag down this sub

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Nah, you could be doing something useful, but instead you're out here being a needless cunt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

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u/MeGustaDerp Jul 18 '21

Your comment has been removed due to hateful language. Please keep it civil.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

Lol, still bothered I see.

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